Makiko Itoh : Not a nameless cat.

The state of emergency for Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Osaka, Hyogo, Fukuoka has right now been declared (after a day of yap yap in Parliament)

prizes*

This year's winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award is Rurou no Tsuki by Yu Nagira. The Booksellers' Award is one of the big literary prized in Japan. twitter.com/hontai/status/…

There's still a TON of confusion about where and who and how and what amount of financial aid there is. FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE PROPERLY.

これ、緊急事態宣言が意味することをすごくわかりやすく書いてあります。拡散しましょう。 twitter.com/ClusterJapan/s…

I’ll get to this later Need to call my mom twitter.com/ClusterJapan/s…

Plz 全然 ok です　(英語ライター and 翻訳家です) 応援してます‼️

Tokyo gov’t has secured 1,000 hotel rooms for these outpatients as a starter.

...starting tomorrow. The head of the Tokyo Medical Association saud they’ve already started a system of taking care of out-patient care, which is being ramped up.

Ok it was just an announcement not a press conference (but did she say there’s a press conference at 9:30? The audio was so bad I’m not sure)

(The echo is so bad it’s funny)

Here is the live stream youtu.be/dwl0Gq9aX2Q

New positives today in Tokyo:83 (which is down from the 143 yesterday, but we need to see if it’s a trend in the next few days)

Official Tokyo Metropolitan government YouTube channel youtube.com/user/tokyo

There’s a Tokyo press conference at 18:45

(The Japanese system puts a lot of onus on individual responsibility....let’s see if it works.)

- Businesses can’t be forced to close - Public transportation will continue to run Along with the state of emergency, it looks like the financial assistance programs will be finally announced in detail too. 3/3

...for emergency purposes - Delivery services can be requisitioned for delivery of emergency supplies - Essential services remain open What the declaration does not entail: - There are no fines etc. for misbehaving individuals or businesses 2/

Abe press briefing now

Thanks!